- Civil War veteran, Private, Company D, Illinois 11th Cavalry Regiment. Cyrus married Sarah Kennedy Oglesby (daughter of John Burgess Oglesby and Sarah M Kennedy), who died in 1893 in Dunlap.
POTTS-Cyrus L. died Monday, May 26, 1914, at his home at Prospect Heights, age 66 years.
Funeral Wednesday at 1 p. m. at Winsler & Holtman undertaking rooms, 506[?] Main street. Mr. Potts was an old soldier and the comrades are invited to attend the services. Interment will be at Dunlap, IL.
CYRUS L. POTTS.
The body of Cyrus L. Potts was found about noon Monday in his barn at Prospect Heights. The deceased lived in the loft of the barn and it is thought that while intoxicated he fell through the stairway and caught his foot on a beam, where he hung until he died. L. B. Leas, who wanted to get him to do some work, was the one who found his body. He was 65 years of age and had lived alone since the death of his wife. Funeral services were held at the Winsler & Holtman undertaking rooms in Peoria Wednesday at 1 p. m. and interment was made in the Dunlap Cemetery.
CYRUS L. POTTS.
Coroner Eckard Investigates Death of Recluse at Prospect Heights.
The death of Cyrus L. Potts, the recluse, whose dead body was found hanging head downward in a barn on his place near Prospect Heights yesterday morning was due to a fall on the stairway of the barn, according to the verdict of the coroner's jury this morning.
It developed this morning that the dead man has numerous relatives living in and around Dunlap and Princeville. The remains were taken to Dunlap and will be buried there tomorrow. Potts was 65 years old and a widower. He had lived alone for a long term of years, or since the death of his wife.
L. B. Leas, a neighbor, and the man who found Potts' body suspended in the barn yesterday, was the principal witness today at the inquest.He said he saw Potts Sunday about noon. Walter Kingman was another witness. Kingman declared he saw the aged man about dusk on Sunday evening. At that time Potts was intoxicated and clinging to the fence in front of the Kingman home. He was confused and did not know which way to go to get to his shack. Kingman said he helped him to his barn and left him at the door, when he said he could make his way to his room above all right.
It is thought that Potts fell soon after he left Kingman while endeavoring to scale the ladder leading to the loft. When he fell his foot caught between the stairway and an upright of the barn and he was trapped head-down and unable to free himself.
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